Jackie Long is social affairs editor and presenter for Channel 4 News.
Jackie Long is Channel 4 News Social affairs editor and presenter. She joined the programme in 2011, following more than two decades at the BBC. Most recently she was Correspondent at Newsnight, and she previously worked on The World at One, PM and Five Live.
There’s little question that the lockdown has exposed deep divisions – piling extra pressure on some of the poores
We’re joined by Professor Partha Kar, who’s the National Speciality Advisor for diabetes at NHS England.
The figures for April show the biggest month-on-month jump since records began in 1971.
They are dying at roughly twice the rate of the general population and are struggling with a lack of protective equipment putting them in harm’s way every day they go to work.
Channel 4 News spoke to Charlotte Neer, the CEO of Reigate and Banstead Women’s Aid, and the government’s Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Nicole Jacobs.
We have had access to one women’s refuge which has been inundated with calls from women desperate to escape living in lockdown with their abuser.
Joining Channel 4 News from Washington DC is Larry Gostin, a professor of global health law and the director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law.
They were families already living on the edge. Now, the economic catastrophe wrought by the virus has plunged even more parents and children into poverty.
Channel 4 News spoke to Vicky Ford, the Minister for Children and Families, and Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, the head teacher of a primary school in Sparkhill, Birmingham.
The scheme is supposed to replace free school meals in England, by giving poorer pupils food vouchers worth £15 a week.
Earlier we spoke to Labour’s Yvette Cooper, who chairs the House of Commons committee which published the report into domestic violence.
Trapped in lockdown with your abuser – the reality of life for victims of domestic violence.
Earlier we spoke to Dr Joe Brierley is a consultant in Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
With universities closed across the country, many students are now spending lockdown in the relative comfort of their family home.
The Business Secretary today revealed that 2.8 million workers have been furloughed under the government’s support scheme